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Aww, Sollux's first power outage

Aug 07, 2011 09:52

Characters: Sollux and YOU!
Setting: Library, near computer terminals
Format: I'm going for prose, but will follow your lead.
Summary: Techie over here has his first power outage, and he's not happy about it.
Warnings: Language due to a very angry Sollux.

( trololololol )

[ou] mercedes, [ou] eiji hino, [ou] dave strider, [ou] sollux captor

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froghunting August 7 2011, 19:37:23 UTC

Hello angry voice in the room. Mercedes was more freaking out than p.o'd at the moment. Usable electricity wasn't exactly a thing where she's from, so she'd never thought it would simply stop working.

She sounded frantic! "Has something terrible happened?"

viru2alert August 7 2011, 21:20:16 UTC

If someone else had come in here, Sollux didn't notice it, which would explain the random squealing from somewhere in the room. After sending some more glares at the computer, he stood up and quickly located the source -- but this time the human had wings.

"Well, we're sitting in the dark for one thing," he grumbled. Though trolls had developed a good sense of night-vision since they pretty much lived in eternal night all the time, it was still quite an inconvenience.

froghunting August 10 2011, 21:57:29 UTC

"Does this happen often with this power source?" She is, by fear and instincts, heading toward the grumpy voice slowly, unable to see and very much in a jitter.

Stupid electricity and its not working! "This is troubling..."

viru2alert August 12 2011, 16:51:48 UTC

"How should I know? I've only been here a few days..." Slowly, his eyes are adjusting to the darkness, and he is looking around, trying to gain his bearings again. His eyes had grown adjusted to the light, but thirteen years of being nocturnal had its benefits, and it's ever so slightly becoming easier to see.

Eventually he catches sight of someone standing nearby. Wasn't a troll (there was obviously a distinct lack of horns), but... holy crap does she have wings?

hoboherooo August 8 2011, 08:13:12 UTC

A bit after the power had went out, there was a faint hissing sound in the library, as well as something akin to growling.

And footsteps. Erratic, stumbling footsteps.

viru2alert August 8 2011, 16:00:32 UTC

Oh great, now the computer was making weird noises. This human technology is awful, really it is. Who makes a computer to give off growling noises?

...And then Sollux realized that it wasn't coming from the computer.

He turned his back to the terminal, looking around. Monsters. How many times had they come in and totally screwed him over? Many times. Obviously he didn't care what they did to these crappy human computers... but he had just realized that he left his throwing stars in his trunk.

This should be interesting.

hoboherooo August 8 2011, 20:37:25 UTC

There was a thumping noise, like someone running into something. "Gghhhrrraaaagh!" More footsteps - faster this time, but just as clumsy.

Another thump. louder this time. "AARRGHGHGHGH!"

Then there's a very loud crash and clattering - the floor may even shake a bit.

OOC: Fun fact: put off this tag to make an appropriate "...uh oh" icon. viru2alert August 9 2011, 04:31:43 UTC

Oh fuck. Oh fuck.

It was at this moment that Sollux realized that he had nowhere to back up to -- since the crappy computers were in the way. But it sounds like the monster got distracted by something, judging from the clattering and random shaking of floor.

Slowly, Sollux reaches for the stool he had been sitting on a few minutes ago, hoping to use it as some kind of improvised blunt weapon.

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parappa_strider August 8 2011, 15:30:50 UTC

Dave is very proud, and he decides to show how proud he is by shouting back at the top of his lungs.

"HEY SHUT THE FUCK UP SOME PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO FIND THEIR WAY AROUND IN THE DARK WITH SOME FUCKING SHADES ON IN HERE." Screaming for silence. Classic irony.

And of course he wouldn't pull his shades off even if he couldn't see shit.

OOC: IT IS ON viru2alert August 8 2011, 15:47:38 UTC

"THEN TAKE THEM OFF!" he shouted back, the irony/hypocrisy practically dripping from his voice. Seriously, you couldn't see anything with sunglasses -- or at least the troll equivalent of them, handy for keeping the retina-burning sun out of one's eyes -- even if you weren't sitting in the dark.

...His shades didn't count. They're prescription.

OOC: YOU BET IT IS parappa_strider August 8 2011, 16:15:27 UTC

"I'LL SHOW YOU MINE IF YOU SHOW ME YOURS!" This was actually slightly amusing, though he had been in the middle of something of DIRE importance on his own computer.

And he lost all of his work in the process. All five minutes of it. Whatever, nothing in this stupid tower involving technology looked very reliable anyways, so he couldn't rely on the power staying out for too terribly long. Did that even make sense? No, it didn't.

OOC: IT'S ON LIKE MULEBEAST KONG. viru2alert August 8 2011, 16:37:48 UTC

You are so lucky that Sollux hasn't caught up on that area of human childhood subculture. So lucky.

"WHERE ARE YOU, EVEN?" Seriously, this line of computer terminals just keeps going and going and going. So much effort spent on lame technology. If the whole place weren't so primitive (that is, resistant to his attempts), Sollux would probably take it upon himself to upgrade them all, if only because he can't stand the state they're in now.

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